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Comparison series
Sourcepull vs the AEO field.
We read every major review source, catalogued 10 competitors, and found the same complaint across 9 of them: you can see where you're invisible, but nobody tells you what to do about it. These pages document that gap, tool by tool.
Source: Plate Lunch Collective, April 2026. Independent research, 52 platforms catalogued, $300M+ funding tracked. No vendor relationships disclosed.
The gaps
What the monitoring tools keep missing.
- No fix plan9 of 10 peers
- The single most-cited complaint in the category. You see where you're invisible. You have no idea what to do next.
- Credit and add-on pricing confusion7 of 10
- Credits burn mid-month. Engines cost extra. The price you see isn't the price you pay.
- Weekly refresh instead of daily4 of 10
- Data that's a week old is fine for trend-watching. It's frustrating when you're actively making changes and want to see what moved.
- No accuracy scoring10 of 10
- Every tool in this category measures mentions. Not one measures whether what AI says about you is actually correct. Sourcepull does.
- No Canadian or regional fix-plan context10 of 10
- None of the 10 tools calibrate their fix plans to Canadian directories, bilingual markets, or local SMB context.
- DeepSeek and Grok coverage7 of 10 lack it
- Both platforms are growing fast. Most tools either skip them entirely or put them behind add-on fees.
The tools
Each one, compared honestly.
Profound
Enterprise platform, $399/mo+, no fix plan. Right tool for Fortune 500 teams. Not built for SMBs who want to know what to paste.
AEO Engine
Done-for-you agency retainer at $797-2,997/mo. Different buying decision entirely. Run the audit first, then decide if you need the agency.
AthenaHQ
4.9/5 G2, ex-Google PM, real ROI attribution. Credits burn in 14 days at standard usage. No fix plan in the output.
Otterly.ai
42 G2 reviews, Semrush integration, the tool agencies already use. No Claude tracking. Weekly refresh. No fix plan.
Peec AI
$29M funded, daily tracking, named clients. The sharpest gap in the field: shows you where you're invisible, doesn't help you fix it.
The gap
"shows where you're invisible in AI search but doesn't help you fix it. Users report feeling stuck after seeing the data."
Source. discoveredlabs.com, Peec AI review
That quote is about Peec AI. The same complaint appears in reviews of AthenaHQ, Otterly, Gauge, Nimt, Passionfruit, and Rank Prompt. 9 of 10 tools in the category leave you with a dashboard and no next step. Sourcepull's fix plan is the next step.
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